Feb 23, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nature, Novelists, Volume 7
Mark Twain Mark Twain Cave Hannibal, Missouri By Avery Gregurich It was said that one might wander days and nights together through its intricate tangle of rifts and chasms, and never find the end of the cave; and that he might go down, and down, and still down, into...
Feb 22, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 7
Meridel Le Sueur Miner’s Shack Picher, Oklahoma By Joe Schiller The shacks huddled haphazard and crosswise, scattered between the chat piles. Leaky roofs, knotholes, and loose-swinging doors let the dust in on any decent breeze. In Picher, Oklahoma, nobody built for...
Feb 22, 2022 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 7
Mari Sandoz Gravesite Sheridan County, Nebraska By C.J. Janovy It’s not easy to get to the final resting place of Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz, whose books, I’ll go ahead and argue, evoke one region of America as powerfully as William Faulkner’s portray another. Paying...
Oct 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Schools, Volume 6
MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Blackburn CollegeCarlinville, Illinois By Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey As professors in the English department at Blackburn College, we have always been aware of the legacy of the college’s most famed writer, Mary Hunter Austin, who was born in...
Oct 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 6, Wisconsin
Aldo Leopold The Leopold ShackBaraboo, Wisconsin By Marc Seals I am not a Midwestern native — I was raised in the woods and swamps of north Florida, far from the Driftless Region of Wisconsin (where I now live). As a result, I was not familiar with Aldo Leopold or his...
Oct 6, 2021 | Arkansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Poets, Volume 5
MAYA ANGELOU Angelou MemorialStamps, Arkansas By Greer Veon Despite living in southwest Arkansas most of my life, my first visit to Stamps was with my parents in August 2018. We made the trip on a Sunday afternoon before my flight back north the following...
